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Graph of frost predictions for fall.
The Backyard Gardener: Article

Fall Frost Season Draws Nigh

October 2, 2020
By Dustin W Blakey
It's now October so that means that we're now in the time of year where we start to wind down our gardens for the season. If you're at all like me and refuse to plan for the eventual coming cold weather by pulling out plants, a killing frost will force the matter.
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Glenn County: Article

Prune- Fall 2020

October 2, 2020
In this issue: Long Pruning Webinar Save the Date! UC Prune Research Conference Fall & Winter Prune Orchard Management Considerations Cytospora: A Prune Growers Arch Nemesis New UC Davis Prune Cultivars Prove Promising...
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Mulched fava bean start, J. Alosi
The Real Dirt: Article

Meeting Nature Halfway

October 2, 2020
Imagine a healthy garden that grows, blooms, and produces food for you, your family and your neighbors, a garden that costs you very little money because everything it needs is already provided.
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UC President Michael Drake (in yellow-outlined square) attended his first meeting with the PAC on Sept. 30.
ANR Employee News: Article

President Drake meets the PAC

October 1, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
UC President Michael Drake attended his first meeting with the President's Advisory Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources (PAC) on Sept. 30.
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An alfalfa butterfly, Colias eurytheme, nectaring on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

October 1, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
For the first butterfly, it was the right place at the right time. An alfalfa or sulfur butterfly (Colias eurytheme) fluttered into our pollinator garden in Vacaville to sip some nectar from a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia). It lingered for several minutes.
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Ian Grettenberger
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Department's Fall Seminar Schedule Announced

October 1, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Cooperative Extension specialist Ian Grettenberger, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is coordinating the department's fall seminars, held virtually on Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m. Zoom links will be accessible via the Google form link. The schedule: Oct.
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